YAMA applet in AWN crashed after system freezed

[antoirehew]

I encounter a system freezed while playing a flash video on google chromium before the system freeze, then I do a hard reboot from the dead system, after the boot AWN started with YAMA (yet another main menu applet) showing a dead face, I restart the applet, but could not help, it remain crashed even after 3 apt-get remove and install from PPA. no system error generate from the last freeze...
Ubuntu 10.10 amd64 bit, 4GB ram, Avant Window Navigator 0.4.1-rewrite-bzr830+201104200103 from AWN testing trunk ppa, compiz, ATI X1050

[Derek White (d-man97)]

Did not require a system freeze, but YAMA does not work since the latest update using 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ppa/ubuntu maverick main'.

It crashes immediately upon awn startup or adding it to an awn panel.

[onox (onox)]

Please run avant-window-navigator in a terminal and post any relevant output / traceback.

[Nicolas Briche (nbriche)]

On a click on YAMA's 'crashed' icon:

** (avant-window-navigator:2829): DEBUG: Spawned awn-applet[2993] for "yama.desktop", UID: 1307530691, XID: 14683705
** Message: pygobject_register_sinkfunc is deprecated (AwnOverlay)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/avant-window-navigator/applets/yama/yama.py", line 44, in <module>
    xdg_data_dirs = [glib.get_user_data_dir()] + list(glib.get_system_data_dirs())
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_system_data_dirs'

[Nicolas Briche (nbriche)]

Revision 1531 changed the way yama.py gets the system folders are read. Instead of os.environ["XDG_DATA_DIRS"].split(":"), it uses [glib.get_user_data_dir()] + list(glib.get_system_data_dirs()).

The glib module used in maverick is 2.26.1 according to glib.__dict__. That one has get_user_data_dir(), but not get_system_data_dirs(), so yama.py goes [x_x].

[onox (onox)]

glib.get_system_data_dirs is undocumented in documentation of pygobject. However, glib.get_user_data_dir exists since pygobject-2.18, so I assumed glib.get_system_data_dirs would also be present since 2.18 (Functions in normal glib exist since glib-2.6 according to its documentation)

Maverick has glib-2.26, but pygobject-2.21. Apparently glib.get_system_data_dirs doesn't exist yet in pygobject-2.21. Packaging such an old version of pygobject is weird imho, but Shuttleworthless probably doesn't give a damn, so I'll fix it soon. (I know ranting is undiplomatic, but I do it anyway ^_^)

[onox (onox)]

Fixed in revision 1532. Wait for a new PPA to appear.